Evolution
General/Contact Information:
Name
Email
School
Center #
Grade (s):
Morgan Spell
Morgan.spell@cpsb.org
Westlake High School
Center 1
10th
Lauren Flurry
Lauren.flurry@cpsb.org
Westlake High School
Center 2
Learning Center Information:
Center Summaries, GLEs, CCSS, Materials, and Resources
1
Center 1: Prezi
Center 1
Lesson Summary:
Students will investigate scientific evidence to support the theory of evolution and create a prezi presentation for class.
GLEs and CCSS:
HS.LS-NSE Natural Selection and Evolution
Students who demonstrate understanding can:
b. Use evidence to explain the process by which natural selection leads to adaptations that result in populations
dominated by organisms that are anatomically, behaviorally, and physiologically able to survive and/or reproduce in a
specific environment. [Assessment Boundary: Evidence should center on survival advantages of selected traits for
different environmental changes such as temperature, climate, acidity, light.]
c. Analyze and interpret data to explain the process by which organisms with an advantageous heritable trait tend to
increase in numbers in future generations; but organisms that lack an advantageous heritable trait tend to decrease in
numbers in future generations.
d. Obtain and communicate information describing how changes in environmental conditions can affect the distribution
of traits in a population and cause increases in the numbers of some species, the emergence of new species, and the
extinction of other species.
e. Use evidence obtained from new technologies to compare similarity in DNA sequences, anatomical structures, and
embryological appearance as evidence to support multiple lines of descent in evolution.
Materials and Resources:
1. Task Card
2. Rubric
3. Quick Tips
4. Researcher Notesheet
5. Websites for Research:
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http://www.prezi.com
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh
/evolution/educators/teac
hstuds/svideos.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh
/evolution/library/04/2/l_
042_01.html
http://www.agiweb.org/ne
ws/evolution/examplesofe
volution.html
http://www.txtwriter.com
/Backgrounders/Evolution/
EVpage11.html
http://www.txtwriter.com
/Backgrounders/Evolution/
EVpage12.html
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http://www.txtwriter.com
/Backgrounders/Evolution/
EVpage13.html
http://evolution.berkeley.e
du/evolibrary/article/0_0_
0/lines_01
http://www.ucmp.berkele
y.edu/history/evolution.ht
ml
http://www2.edc.org/webl
abs/ExploringEvolution/ev
olution.swf
http://library.thinkquest.or
g/C004367/be2.shtml
Student Tools (Hardware/Software)
1. Computer
2. Internet Browser
2
Center 2: Brochure
Center 2
Lesson Summary:
Students will investigate scientific evidence to support the theory of evolution and create a brochure to accompany the evolution presentation for class.
GLEs and CCSS:
HS.LS-NSE Natural Selection and Evolution
Students who demonstrate understanding can:
b. Use evidence to explain the process by which natural selection leads to adaptations that result in populations
dominated by organisms that are anatomically, behaviorally, and physiologically able to survive and/or reproduce in a
specific environment. [Assessment Boundary: Evidence should center on survival advantages of selected traits for
different environmental changes such as temperature, climate, acidity, light.]
c. Analyze and interpret data to explain the process by which organisms with an advantageous heritable trait tend to
increase in numbers in future generations; but organisms that lack an advantageous heritable trait tend to decrease in
numbers in future generations.
d. Obtain and communicate information describing how changes in environmental conditions can affect the distribution
of traits in a population and cause increases in the numbers of some species, the emergence of new species, and the
extinction of other species.
e. Use evidence obtained from new technologies to compare similarity in DNA sequences, anatomical structures, and
embryological appearance as evidence to support multiple lines of descent in evolution.
Materials and Resources:
1. Task Card
2. Rubric
3. Brochure Template
4. Researcher Notesheet
5. Websites for Research:
 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh
/evolution/educators/teac
hstuds/svideos.html
 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh
/evolution/library/04/2/l_
042_01.html
 http://www.agiweb.org/ne
ws/evolution/examplesofe
volution.html
 http://www.txtwriter.com
/Backgrounders/Evolution/
EVpage11.html
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http://www.txtwriter.com
/Backgrounders/Evolution/
EVpage12.html
 http://www.txtwriter.com
/Backgrounders/Evolution/
EVpage13.html
 http://evolution.berkeley.e
du/evolibrary/article/0_0_
0/lines_01
 http://www.ucmp.berkele
y.edu/history/evolution.ht
ml
 http://www2.edc.org/webl
abs/ExploringEvolution/ev
olution.swf
 http://library.thinkquest.or
g/C004367/be2.shtml
Student Tools (Hardware/Software)
1. Computer
2. Internet Browser
3. Microsoft Word